Harry L. Swinney – Past Students

Masters Degree Students:


  • Gordon Skinner, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989 (deceased)

    "Studies of Spiral Wave Dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reagent”

  • William Holloway, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991 (now at National Instruments)

    "Experimental Studies of Steady-State and Rossby Wave Flow in Planetary Jets”

  • Fred Hamill, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (now at IBM-Boulder)

    "Turbulent Bursting in the Couette-Taylor System”

  • Ade Lee, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995

    "Pattern Formation in a Parametrically Forced Chemical System”

  • Andreas Breu, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now at University of Wuerzburg)

    "Onset of Fluidization in a Water Fluidized Bed”

  • Richard Metzler, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now at University of Wuerzburg)

    "Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy in a Liquid-Fluidized Bed”

  • Matthias Bertram, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (now in Germany for Ph.D. studies)

    "A Numerical Study of Resonant Pattern Formation in the Brusselator Reaction-Diffusion Model”

  • Reza Kharrazian, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (now at Wuerzburg University)

    "Resonant patterns in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model with oscillatory and excitable dynamics”

  • Thomas Weber, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (now at Wuerzburg University)

    "2D and 3D turbulence in a rotating tank with a vertically oscillating grid”

  • Bernward Mann, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now at Frity Haber Institute)

    "Spatial Phase-Transitions in Bacterial Growth”

  • Xaver Sailer, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now in Germany for Ph.D. studies)

    "Simulation of Resonant Pattern Formation with the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model”

  • Karl Martinez, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now at Duke University)

    "Resonant pattern formation in excitable chemical media”

  • Beth Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001

    "Spirals and oscillons in vertically oscillated granular material”




Ph.D. Students:

  • T. K. Lim, The Johns Hopkins University, 1973 (now Professor at Korea University, Seoul)

    "The Rayleigh Linewidth of Simple Fluids near the Critical Point”

  • Jay Newman, New York University, 1975 (now Professor at Union College)

    "Dynamic Light Scattering and Birefringence Studies of fd Virus and Its DNA”

  • Dennis Wonica, City College of CUNY, 1979 (now working in aerospace industry)

    "Brillouin Scattering in Xenon Near the Critical Point”

  • Randy Fenstermacher, City College of CUNY, 1979

    "Laser Doppler Velocimetry Study of the Onset of Chaos in Taylor Vortex Flow”

  • Leslie Reith, The University of Texas, 1981 (now at Bell Communications Research)

    "Transition to Turbulence in a Circular Couette System”

  • Gregory P. King, The University of Texas, 1983 (now Lecturer at the University of Warwick)

    "Limits of Stability and Irregular Flow Patterns in Wavy Vortex Flow”

  • Anke Brandstater, Christian Albrechts Universität (Kiel), 1984 (now self-employed)

    "Low Dimensional Chaos in a Hydrodynamic System”

  • Donald Allen Hirst, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987 (now at The Aerospace Corporation)

    "The Aspect Ratio Dependence of the Attractor Dimension in Taylor-Couette Flow”

  • Andrew McLeod Fraser, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (now a Professor at Portland State University)

    "Information and Entropy in Strange Attractors”

  • John Vastano, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (now director of Technology Assessment

    at AKAMBA, Los Gatos, CA)

    "Bifurcations in Spatiotemporal Systems”

  • Peter McCarty, University of Texas at Austin, 1989 (Co-advisor: Werner Horthemke)

    (now at Applied Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin)

    "Modelling of spatially extended open chemical systems”

  • Steven D. Meyers, The University of Texas at Austin, 1990 (now Professor at University of South Florida)

    "Laboratory Experiments on Coherent Structures in Quasi-geostrophic Flows”

  • W. Stuart Edwards, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991

    "New Stability Analyses for the Couette-Taylor Problem”

  • Michael F. Schatz, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991 (now an Assistant Professor

    of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology)

    "Transition in Plane Channel Flow with Spatially Periodic Perturbations”

  • Daniel P. Lathrop, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992 (now an Associate Professor

    of Physics at University of Maryland)

    "Turbulent Drag and Transport in High Reynolds Number Couette-Taylor Flow”

  • Kyoung J. Lee, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994 (now an Assistant Professor of Physics at Korea University)

    "Nonequilibrium Chemical Patterns and their Bifurcations”

  • Steven P. Gross, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (Co-advisor: Michael Marder)

    (now an assistant professor at University of California, Irvine)

    "Dynamics of Fast Fracture”

  • John M. Huth, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (now at Global Market Technologies, Houston, Texas)

    "Dynamics and Convective Transport in Electrochemical Deposition”

  • Gregory S. Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now at Calimetrics, Berkeley, California)

    "Velocity Fluctuations, Wall Shear Stress and the Transition in Torque Scaling at

    Re=13,000 in Turbulent Couette-Taylor Flow”

  • Paul B. Umbanhowar, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now an Assistant Professor

    of Physics at Northwestern University)

    "Pattern Formation in Vertically Vibrated Granular Materials”

  • Stephen Van Hook, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now at Bowling Green State University)

    "Long-Wavelength Instability in Surface-Tension-Driven Bénard Convection”

  • Eric R. Weeks, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now an assistant professor at Emory University)

    "Experimental Studies of Anomalous Diffusion, Blocking Phenomena, and Two-Dimensional Turbulence”

  • Jens Hauch, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (Co-advisor: Michael Marder)

    (now at Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany)

    "Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials”

  • John Burgess, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (Co-advisor: W. D. McCormick) (now at Motorola, Austin, TX)

    "Thin Film Instabilities: Rayleigh-Taylor with Thermocapillarities and Kolmogorov Flow in a Soap Film”

  • Charles Baroud, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now in France on Chateau Briand Fellowship)

    "Transitions from three-to two-dimensional turbulence in a rotating system”